Dragaera

Squick: Usage vs. Claimed origin

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Tue Nov 26 12:46:15 PST 2002

Rick Castello writes:
> My experience with the term:  Occasional use over 8-10 years
> in and around Central California by teens to twentysomethings.
> More frequently regarding physical sensation, but occasionally
> in reference to an idea or thought.

It first showed up in my sphere about 11-12 years ago in certain parts
of Usenet.  

While it did have a sexual usage (or at least was used in specific
alt.sex groups), the usage did make it clearly a portmanteau of
"squeamish" and "ick", which isn't actually sexual per-se.


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